Emmitt Smith Quotes
I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?
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Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.
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Taylor's Law states: 'The Foreign Office knows no secrets.'
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When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
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I've been an 'Office' fan from day one. I knew Steve Carell in Chicago back in the day, so I started watching to support a Chicago guy and immediately got hooked on that show.
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I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.
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In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.
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The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has huge moral dilemmas and decisions to make.
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You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.
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It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.
